Posted on 10/29/2013 11:13:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
The liberal claim that Republicans are engaging in a perpetual “war on women” seems to have taken a new turn on MSNBC. No longer does the term “war on women” apply only to access to abortion but now encompasses voting rights as well.
Appearing on MSNBC on October 29, liberal MSNBC host Thomas Roberts claimed that Republicans are trying to restrict a woman’s access to the ballot box. This comes one week after fill-in host Michael Eric Dyson made a similar complaint on The Ed Show. [See video after jump.]
MSNBC's Roberts: Republicans Want To Stop Women From Voting
Speaking with Terry O’Neill, president of the liberal National Organization for Women, Roberts introduced a segment that initially centered around abortion before quickly focusing on new voting laws in Texas. O’Neill began her talking points by claiming that:
The Republican Party in Texas is not only waging war on women's access to reproductive health care, they're even waging war on women's access to the ballot box. They are now enforcing rules that are aimed to stop women from voting.
Roberts seemed happy to take Ms. O’Neill’s bait playing a clip of State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth), who is running for governor of Texas, complaining that:
I was required to sign an affidavit because the name on my voter registration card is slightly different than the name on my driver's license. My driver's license includes my maiden name. My voter registration card does not.
Roberts continued the narrative asking:
So are women getting the wake-up call that they need about what's taking place for Republicans there trying not just to restrict access to affordable health care, health care that they want, but their vote?
Nowhere in the segment did Roberts or O’Neill explain how Wendy Davis or any woman was prevented from voting, only that the state senator was required to sign an affidavit proving that she was who her voter registration says she was. In fact, according to the Texas Secretary of State website, if there is a confliction regarding your name when you vote, “You may continue to vote during this period. If you do not have your certificate in hand, you may sign an affidavit at the polls and present a form of identification.”
Rather than actually inform viewers of the provisions of the Texas law, Roberts and Ms. O’Neill seemed perfectly content misleading their audience, all the better to poison their viewers, particularly women, against voting Republican.
At MSNBC, the network has moved far beyond reporting the news with a liberal spin. Instead the goal is distorting the news to further a liberal agenda. Roberts should be ashamed of himself for sacrificing journalistic credibility in service of reliably toeing the party line.
Really? Among FReepers?
And I’m one of them!
Whew! That’s a relief. :)
Ohhhhhh, uh ohhhhh...
If “Wife Unit” sees this, You be in heap big trouble kemosabe!!! ;-)
Either way, I’m in trouble just because I hang out in a place like this being corrupted and turned into a hateful, racist, sexist pig...
(That clings to his Bible and guns...I forgit that part!!!)
ha
Check the link at #18...something about girls named 'Ann'...neither Coulter or Barnhardt thought women voting was a good idea.
Watching MSNBC actually does destroy brain cells, but considering that viewers of that network dont have brains to begin with then no harm done :-)
Trust a dog more than a human...
I’m surprised these women don’t complain about Jesus not picking any women to be among His disciples...
...you think they don’t...?
...the other day, at a church function at my affluent suburban parish, the talk moved to women serving as priests, and the consensus was that that the church was, (stubbornly, not meanly)being sexist in its stance...
...I continue to go to this navel-gazing parish to indulge my wife, who will not attend a local TLM with me...as I sit there at mass I focus my thoughts on all that Jesus endured...
...it’s the universal cure for stresses of all types...
This place? The owner of this site seems to like and respect women. I guess that’s why so many of us are here. :)
My wife wouldn’t be too thrilled...
If you take your wife and your dog and lock them in your trunk and drive around the block which one will be happy to see you when you open the trunk? :-)
“You could take any large group of individuals and find “some” that believe the mother ship is hovering on the back side of the moon.”
Now you’re outing me?!?!?! What did I do to you??? :-P
LOL! But she was persistent, making him look like a kook who actually believed in God.
:)
“You could take any large group of individuals and find “some” that believe the mother ship is hovering on the back side of the moon.”
It’s there, you just have to wait until the lunar eclipse to see it....
Kinda like binge drinkin’??? hehehe
LOL - post of the day.....and I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually happened.
The leftwing kooks keep getting kookier and kookier!
"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Seems you are in the same boat with me, does that make you feel Lucky?
“You could take any large group of individuals and find “some” that believe the mother ship is hovering on the back side of the moon.”
Now you’re outing me?!?!?! What did I do to you??? :-P
...lol...good one...
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